Green Campus
World maritime education attaches utmost importance to issues such as environment and marine pollution owing to international rules such as MARPOL/SOLAS. At this stage, these rules are taught theoretically in our maritime faculties from books. Since 2013, Piri Reis University has started to provide this education to students with its international accreditation by putting Turkey’s first and only environmentally friendly Green Campus into service.
The main features of the campus include the establishment of a system that will make natural resources reusable, utilization of solar energy as energy use, optimum provision of some lighting by using solar electric panels, design of landscaping in a way that will require minimum water, use of very special materials that can be recycled during construction, use of a tri-generation power plant as an innovation, heating with diesel generator waste heat which will be provided by a tri-generation system and which minimizes natural gas/air pollution, absorption cooling, and heating/cooling using a seawater-sourced heat pump, which provides high energy efficiency, purification of waste water on the campus and its use in environmental irrigation. In this campus, which includes a design in which carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide emissions are kept at a minimum level, a system will be established in which the investment will be covered within 3-4 years, although the initial investment cost will increase by 10-15%.
Piri Reis University Green Campus was put into service in November 2013 with a closed education volume of approximately 60,000 m2 on 30 decares of land on the coast of the Marmara Sea in Tuzla.